TRIPWIRE CAMERAS INSTRUMENTAL IN APPREHENDING SERIAL RAPIST / MURDERER IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY
December 28,2007
Tripwire cameras gained their most significant win in recent days following the successful detection and apprehension of a serial rapist and murderer scouting for his fourth victim in Hemet, California.
The Tripwire cameras, owner by San Jacinto Police department were loaned to the nearby Hemet Police in an effort to gain instant knowledge of the offender on site in real time. Four tripwire units were quickly placed around the offenders preferred sites over a two week period.
The first rape occurred 5 months earlier in August, again in October with one victim being assaulted on two separate occasions. The victims were all elderly citizens of a local retirement community.
On the most recent occasion, the third victim a 74 year old wheelchair bound woman, died from head injuries sustained during the attack.
“The Tripwire Systems cameras were originally created to stem graffiti and anti social type behavior”, David Black, Tripwire designer stated. “We are absolutely ecstatic that the Tripwires in this case, potentially saved this woman from another attack, but more importantly halted the offenders crimes immediately. Who knows how long he would have offended or how many future victims there could have been”.
At 1.36am December 28th the first Tripwire unit detected 21 year old Kenneth Daniels Jnr of San Jacinto and immediately sent multiple alerts and images to the Hemet Police department and to undercover officers nearby. Soon after a 911 call came through as the offender was heard attempting to break into a potentially new victims apartment in the same complex.
With multiple Police units well on the way already and officers searching the complex when the woman called, the offender after a short chase by police, was apprehended on site.
“They got him this morning as a result of your invention. He was in the process of breaking into another unit.
You made a difference in the life of an elderly woman today.
The surviving victim identified him as the suspect that raped her twice and almost beat her to death.
Hemet PD said it was purely because of the Tripwire units.......
Law Enforcement Official quote - San Jacinto Police Department
Complex video of rapist being apprehended by Hemet PD after Tripwire units alerted instantly-
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